Our Team

Ian McCrae founded Orion Health in 1993, an award-winning, global provider of healthcare information technology advancing population health and precision medicine solutions for personalized care across the entire health ecosystem. Passionate about the role that technology plays in making personalized healthcare a reality, Ian leads ground-breaking technology focused on digitally enabling and integrating health systems. He spearheaded the development of the company’s flagship products--Rhapsody Integration Engine and Amadeus, a big data could-based platform--which help manage more than a 100 million patients records globally. His teams deliver patient-centered healthcare and quality health outcomes that help clinicians improve care and help patients live healthier lives.Ian holds a Masters in Engineering Science and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Ian McCrae

Founder and CEO

Mark Tisdel

Chief Financial Officer

Mark joined Orion Health in June 2017 after multiple years as CFO of Californian companies Model N, Steelwedge Software and Spigit, Inc.

Mark Tisdel

Chief Financial Officer

Greg Balla

Chief Operating Officer and EVP People

Greg leads a team that is responsible for supporting our global leaders to attract great people, engage and recognise these people for doing their best everyday. Greg's team also lead major change initiatives aimed at continually lifting the performance of the organisation. Greg joined Orion Health early in 2015, where he has utilised his 18 years senior leadership experience in large complex organisations to assume global responsibility for ensuring that Orion Health have the right people engaged to deliver their best work everyday, make changes to the way we work to ensure we sustainably out-perform our peers, and establish a structure and process to manage quality, risk, and software security.

Greg Balla

Chief Operating Officer and EVP People

Mark Capill

CEO, Hospitals

Mark Capill

CEO, Hospitals

Jason Careless

Chief Technology Officer

Jason joined Orion Health in December 2010, working in London, Scottsdale and a stint in Auckland. As Chief Technology Officer Jason is responsible for Orion’s overall global technology strategy providing technical leadership across the regions and working closely with product and R&D teams to achieve efficient and effective solutions. Jason also owns our relationship with AWS, attaining the status of Advanced Technology Partner and their ISV healthcare competency.

Jason Careless

Chief Technology Officer

Chris Hobson

Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Chris Hobson, MD MBA is the Chief Medical Officer and chief privacy Officer with Orion Health. He had key areas of responsibility for the clinical direction of Orion Health products and solutions, and ensures the protection of patient safety and privacy in everything Orion Health does. He is a primary care practitioner and internist certified in healthcare informatics. He has extensive international clinical, technical and policy-level expertise, drawing from his background successfully developing and implementing health information technology globally. He is a regular presenter at industry events internationally; in addition to his responsibilities for patient safety and privacy, he has active interests in care coordination, population health and disease management.

Chris Hobson

Chief Medical Officer

James Rice

Global Sales Director, Population Health

James Rice

Global Sales Director, Population Health

Alex Mercer

VP, Global Marketing and Communications

Alex Mercer

VP, Global Marketing and Communications

Kevin Ross

Research Director Orion Health and CEO Precision Driven Health

Kevin Ross started working for Orion Health as the head of the Precision Driven Health team in February 2016. His aim is to help organisations to deliver value and make better decisions using analytics and data science.

Kevin has worked in corporate, consulting and academic roles to lead organisational capability development, including major strategic and tactical projects in health, dairy, public service, information technology and aerospace.

Kevin also founded and currently chairs the New Zealand Analytics Forum, a best-practice network of professionals dedicated to improving this country's analytics capability.